MidJourney MASTERY Beginner's Guide - EVERYTHING You Need to Know! (AI Art Tutorial 2023)
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This is the ULTIMATE beginner's guide to generating AI Art with MidJourney. In this lengthy, free course I'm sharing EVERYTHING you need to know to make amazing images, automate your creative process, and create awesome stuff.
MidJourney: midjourney.com
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Seamless Texture Checker: www.pycheung.com/checker/
📃 MidJourney "AI ART MASTER" reference guide: eposvox.gg/MJGuide
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MidJourney Style Guide (Github) - github.com/willwulfken/MidJou...
MidJourney Prompt Helper - prompt.noonshot.com/
MidLibrary - www.midlibrary.io
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TIMECODES:
00:00:00 MidJourney Noob to Pro Beginner's Guide
00:00:43 What even IS MidJourney?
00:01:42 How to use MidJourney via Discord
00:05:58 Writing your first prompt
00:07:13 Finding your MidJourney generations
00:07:55 MidJourney's Grid & Upscaling/Variations
00:11:56 Viewing your images on MidJourney Website
00:17:27 Copying prompts from Community Feed
00:21:02 Anatomy of a Prompt
00:35:24 Additional styles & prompt flavor
00:42:39 MidJourney Organization Tips!
01:00:20 Reference Images
01:15:09 Aspect Ratios
01:22:01 Default Settings
01:29:20 Tile & Seamless Patterns
01:34:26 The power of SEEDS
01:49:18 Chaos & Stylize
01:57:44 BEST resources for prompt improvement!
02:03:38 Different MidJourney Versions
02:06:06 Making anime with NijiJourney
02:13:21 Secrets of /describe
02:18:10 Awesome prompt assist tool
02:21:32 Prompt & Image Weight
02:24:27 Permutations & --repeat
02:30:57 Unlocking the potential of BLEND
02:34:53 Mastering MultiPrompts
02:39:17 Versus?
02:40:28 Emoji (yes, really)
02:42:21 Logo Design & Vectorize
02:46:23 Follow awesome artists
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I honestly feel almost guilty for the quality and magnitude of information you've given us... FOR FREE. Deepest thanks!
He's getting paid.
Seriously a big thank you for this! I really appreciate good people who take the time to help raise people up and teach. I hope your video here does really well.
This is such a great intro AND deep dive. Thx for the editing, zooms, overlays and efficient delivery of needed content.
Great for both MidJourney and Discord. This helped me a lot (and I shared it with dozens of other authors). Thanks! Now, off to watch the other tutorials.
This tutorial is exactly what I needed to dive into MidJourney! The step-by-step explanations and clear instructions make it so much easier to understand.
You come across as so genuine and sincere. Thank you for making this tutorial!
Thank you for doing this. I hope to learn how to create images that will relate to my book e.g. characters. Hopefully you will continue to do videos to encourage those of us that are of an elderly persuasion and that are a little fearful of technology but keen to learn; you're never too old to learn.
11 mins in and you already made more sense than most midi journey content that I've seen so far. Thank you
Hi, I have learned a lot from your videos, so a big thank you. I recently wrote a partial guide to making a consistent character in MJ in Hebrew, and I posted a link to your masterclass playlist as one of the better teachers out there on MJ. You have been a big help in making it easier to make illustrations for my children's books.
I watched it all at once and was going through midjourney the entire 3 hours. This was incredible
Love midjourney i haven't slept thinking about all the videos i can make
FANTASTIC Tutorial! I just found your channel, since I am recently jumping into this aspect of AI. Thank you so much for what you're doing! Keep up the most excellent work, please.
Thank you so much for this easy to understand tutorial. This has really opened the door for me. I am excited to implement this knowledge. My Midjourney experience has been a challenge until now.. Please continue to educate those of us who are wanting to learn. Your teaching skills are top notch.
Thanks a ton for taking time to put out this brilliant course, found it more informative than the paid courses that I have!
THANKS A LOT BRO !!!! keep up the good work
I hope to find a lot of useful information in this course and hopefully I learn to make beautiful images that I can use on my weblogs. Thank you very much for the opportunity.
Thanks for this video I found a few things that I was able to get my foot in the door with four new prompts
You are great! I love your videos! This one is full of great info and structured to build upon itself to convey the idea of using the prompts to get to a desired outcome and not just hey here is how it works and these are the prompts goodbie. Also I just like listening to how you explain things, it's relaxing :) Bonus points for your studio looking like a videogame when you get to the store to buy potions and upgrades lol
Thank you so much bro, your tutorial worked, keep going!!!
OMG I love you.. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I'm hooked.
Great Tutorial! Thanks so much for putting this all together.👍
GAME CHANGER!! thank you, friend!!! I was so confused and you truly helped!! :0)
i watched it all at once. perfect video
Thank you very much for all that free content about MJ you've been putting out! Cheers from Brazil!
As a 3D artist I'm sooo excited to make my own seamless patterns and textures. Thanks for the tutorial, I'm about halfway through and it's helped a lot. Great teaching style with going between info and application so it's not just one big overwhelming infodump. Definitely kept my eyes from glazing over.
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Glad to see that you're still producing bro.
You should have more followers. I hope you are able to do this full time. I have been following you for a year. Your content is high level.
Damn dude, you killed it with this one!! Many thanks!
Dude love it! Thank you so much!
Such a great tutorial, thanks so much for providing this for FREE, amazing thank you!
Great job, so much useful info. Thanks sooooo much.
I believe im a prompt crafting QUEEN 😂 but I love your content and when asked how I create I send them these vids. You are so thorough. I'm too secretive to tell all my prompt sauce secrets, but these are the basics. Midjourney has been therapeutic for me. Describe and blend have been my favorite features lately for regenerating awful images from earlier versions. While anyone can do it, it does require actual imagination.
Haha well thanks for sending people my way! Yeah that’s what a lot of people don’t get - you have to actually have an artistic vision of some sort to make something good
Ditto. Regenerating my earlier images is fun 'cos I can see I'm getting better with the tools while at the same time I suspect I've found a new form of purgatory 😅
This is awesome. What a fantastic free resource 👍🏻
Glad you think so!
Extremely Helpful!
love this, super interesting and cool guy :D
Thank you always for the good video. I'm also making content with AI, but it's not easy.
You my friend are a. Rock Star!
Thank you so much.
Absolutely Fantastic guide. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Question: If you reference an image for example a family photo on your Gdrive will the reference created by MidJourney allow access to that image even if the original image has been deleted/moved form its original referenced point?
first of all thanks for share your knowledge dude, and secondly, i didn’t get it was where the hell you took the number of that seed
Many thanks for newbies like me to MidJourney and AI image generation.
Have fun!
Thanks for demystifying Discord for me. I swear their layout is like opening VS code for the first time.
Wow wow 🎉👏
Wow! this is so cool
I am making a video using the free version of Stable Diffusion. I also run a channel. I will try using Midjourney too. Thank you for the great video.❤
Love the content, hope to get your thoughts on Taskade in the future! :)
Amazing thorough educational and helpful to share w family soul family
Hello again, sorry about this, but where should I be looking to find the collections you mention? My MJ page doesn't have a collections option. Thanks again.
Teh cool part to maintain a style u like is using the seed and run with it
awesome video, now almost done but ill ask anyway, What is the best way to add me or a personal picture of someone and turn it into AI anime style while trying to keep the facial look the same?
Which MidJourney version are you using V4, V5.V5.1 or V5.2 ? Which version do have upscale max option ?
very good thanks
I was 100% a beginner in the start of this video and it took me about 5 days to finish it completely, but I'm just amazed and grateful because I feel like I can do anything now. Great job!
Excellent work 👌🏻 SUBSCRIBED ❤ One question please: Can we use Midjourney’s paid plan pictures & stuff and use them for selling purpose ? PLATFORM like Etsy or amazon ? Please make a video about legall and illegal contents …!!! It would help us so much. Thanks
Regarding reference images and squishing / black bars. Is it only with non MJ generated reference imagery?
Thanks!
Thanks for the tip!
How do you have the remix prompt popping out when clicking on new variation?
1:57:52 nice. Very thoughtful
Bro that is fantastic tutorial
Thank you so much 😀
Hey, the first link in the description (to the PDF) doesn’t work anymore. Could you update it? Thanks for the awesome tutorial! 😊
Fixed! eposvox.gumroad.com/l/midjourney-beginners-guide-prompts-april23
Excellent class AD! Thanks. But whenever I try t copy the seed from an image I created, it says 'seed failed to copy, try again'. Quit, restarted, no luck. I'm on the $30 per month plan. Any thoughts please? :)
I like your tutorial very much and learned a lot of it. I watched parts of it several times and keep doing that. I have a question. I made my own Discord server and all is set to private. Does that mean that what I generate is not visible in the community feed of other members?
No, that's still controlled by the stealth setting for midjourney itself
Its been driving me crazy how do i get it to generate hands correctly, I have some beautiful images but the hands are all deformed.? anyone that can help please.
@2:45:00 Your problem was that it was autocorrecting your word 'googly' to 'goggly'! It does do that!
Weird take here, but has anybody ever told you your voice is an absolute ringer for Matt Mercer's? I got here by autoplay, with the vids in the background while I worked, and I honestly mistook your voice for his. (Great vid, btw!)
Well that’s incredibly high praise. Thanks!
Hi there, thanks for this, brilliant. I found it all so useful. Just a quick question if you have the time to answer, how long do the images stay on Discord? Does Discord ever delete them? Cheers.
Basically forever. I frequently search for older images on my server (not directly MJ but posted the same way) from years and years ago. I’d recommend saving and organizing them locally, still, but they don’t vanish unless you delete the channels/servers
@@analog-dreams Nice one, thanks for the reply, much appreciated.
wow...this is fantastic...thank you for doing this. ONE COMMENT: What is that room you are in. Is it real or a backdrop. If it is real, what all do you have going on in that room?
It’s my garage studio!
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any free app like this on the web?
pdf file is no longer available at the link :(
Oh yeah had to move it sorry. eposvox.gumroad.com/l/midjourney-beginners-guide-prompts-april23 Updated description
How did you create a Channel?
You should be able to just right click in the column under your server name, and see the option.
Adding 8k at the end of your prompt will make your 4 previews high-rez too. You'll notice that when you click "open in a browser" .
It absolutely changes nothing about the actual image dimensions Midjourney generates. You cannot change that.
@@analog-dreams I guess I am mistaken. But I am looking at my creations and wondering how, as an example, one of my generated previews of 4 variations is1920x2400, and an upscaled image from that same set is 960x1200? Each upscale is the same size as it is in my initial render of 4? How is this an upscale if the dimensions are the same?
@@sfreakmusic With V5 it's *not* an upscale anymore, it's just a slice, because V5 already renders out the full res. Older versions did not and needed upscaled.
@@analog-dreams okay, well that's what originally got my attention, because you said at 7:55 that the 4 generated previews were lower rez and not really useful, when in fact the previews ARE actually high rez. All along I thought it was due to the 8k keyword in the prompt. Either way, glad the preview variations are now automatically high rez and not lower rez like you mentioned. 👍
@@sfreakmusic V4 is still default (at time of release), anyone who hadn't already experimented with new versions that 100% applies to.
BIGGEST QUESTION ??? Hope you can give answer I made a cartoon character colouring sheet, i’m facing a problem that I can’t colour that exact same cartoon…! Mid journey changes the actual cartoon angles. Any SOLUTION ???
Maybe the "seed" option for prompts?
I would argue that using artists names makes your images more midjourney generic. I only use artists names when there's something specific I want to get from the image but using artists introduces a level of bias in the outputs that most of the time generates images that I don't really want.
Cannot follow your navigation and the icons you reference are NOT on my discord/ midjourney interface.
How do you name your collections? I do not see anywhere to add name for collection once it is selected.
I asked in support, seems like collections are broken atm :(
@@analog-dreams thanks for checking.
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HEY NICE AUDIO COMPRESSION (hint: it’s too loud)
My audio is normalized exactly to the web standard of -14 LUFS. If it’s too loud, you’ve either been listening to videos that are way too quiet or just need to turn your volume down
Personally, I like the "illustrative style" of v4 better than v5. v5 tries to make it more realistic
It does by default, but you can steer it away from that
@@analog-dreams I've "heard" v5 prefers an artists name for reference but I haven't found one that does what I'm envisioning yet. Think I may need to play with seed and v4 reference images. My main vein is doing race posters for my livestream and track ads
I don't use artists' names for my work and I rarely generate photorealistic stuff. Don't need to do that :)
Hi, I followed your instruction to make my own server on MJ, however, I'm lost from there. Can you help an old lady please?😔
I cover the full make-your-own-server organization setup here: Organization Tips for MidJourney AI Art Tutorial | MidJourney Master Class | Art Organization 101 kzhead.info/sun/faqxodllfISYo3k/bejne.html
Thanks :)
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just use the bot, not the chat. and you wont need to scroll back and find your image because the chat is scrolling.
Then you have zero organization options compared to using your own server. Once you’re generating a few hundred images that’s just not usable
@@analog-dreams no i mean to use the /imagine command in the bot's "private chat" with you, not the public chat channels. same thing just not a bunch of people typing and generating. .You have all your generated images on the midjurney website anyways. so i dont understand how organization would be an issue.,Anyway, i stopped using midjourney and installed SD locally. steeper learning curve for sure, but once i got the hang of it, it's more advanced and flexible. and not the least free.
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why dont you use a bot an make your own images on your own server? fixes the problem of finding your images.
That’s literally what I recommend doing lol, I even reference my entire video on organization tips for managing your own server and getting the most out of it
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Most of what I see on KZhead about Midjourney is incorrect or misleading. There have been 2 major updates since this video was made. Much of the content is out of date.
That’s what happens when you use a tool that gives you no control over versions and releases significant updates every month or so lol
Who in their right mind is paying 60 a month for this when SD exists?
Not me
And now with sdxl... it's even better
all at once...
You know, I can't tell you how to run your business, but as a career visual artist I'm pretty disappointed to see this here. I found it looking at your gumroad for your OBS masterclass. I think you've demonstrated you're a very smart person, I think it should be clear to you that AI apps like Midjourney are implemented, at best, in ethically murky ways. Selling and teaching prompts feels like pure hucksterism to me. While I'm sure you have some insight into the process, this still changes how I have felt about you, and I think you put it on this second channel for a reason. Idk, man, I really like you and how thoughtful you are, and I don't like this.
I put it on a second channel because my art projects (AI or otherwise) don’t fit in or do well on main. And thus this channel has exploded in a crucial way to me surviving this year as a result. As a lifetime artist I do get the concerns and I think it’s important to navigate them with consideration. But my career has been built on democratizing creative tech and that applies here, too
I use Stable Diffusion A LOT, but I'm sooo tempted to learn MidJourney. Thank you!
It’s a lot of fun!
@@analog-dreams a huge difference I'm noticing is the fundamentally community-centric nature of MJ that just seems to bombard users with inspiration, whereas my experience in SD ( which don't get me wrong has an awesome community too ) is that I tend to go off on my tangents and maybe struggle a bit with quality and outside input, although, if I can drop my SD creations into MJ to improve them then that's not wasted effort I can just take everything to the next level
@@niravelniflheim1858 YESSS I feel the same way
"Renaissance gothic painting!" (two very different styles of art from two periods of time, often using words they just dont understand). Its funny watching people wholeheartedly embracing their "artistic spirit" because they can string together a few prompts, separated by commas. All for AI to work its totally randomised magic. It's almost like watching someone navigate a maze with a blindfold on. The blindfold I refer to is their lack of artistic education and any interest in art, or lighting, or color theory, or composition, prior to the invention of AI art creation. This absence of any Photoshop prowess unfortunately also prevents them from engaging or having control over the outcome of their "a few minutes typing" endeavours may have produced. Sorry to be so negative, but it kind of grates,
It’s almost as if combining elements from the different styles is, in part, the point. Especially when trying to manipulate an algorithm that (as you said) is prone to randomness. I come from an art background, just not a painting one. I’ve been a photographer for 15 years, been using photoshop longer. I studied art history a fair bit in college You’re preaching to the wrong crowd here buddy
wtf iz et?
Still too complicated to use
Midjourney is for plebs. Zero control, zero creativity. If you can't learn Stable Diffusion, just quit.
Gatekeeping “skill” when using an ai art tool. Hilarious.
@@analog-dreams I'm not gatekeeping anything. Just saying that Midjourney is like ebay. You type what you want and you get few results from which you can chose, which makes you a customer. Stable Diffusion on the other hand is open source, which means you have complete control over every aspect of generation, which also means you'll know how the image will look before it's generated. But it's very complex and not accessible for plebs. Why I say this? Because using Midjourney will get you nowhere. It's purely for fun. Stable Diffusion on the other hand is already used for archiviz, design, marketing, animation, vfx and the list goes on, and that's because it can be modified for specific needs.
OMG, enough with the aspect ratios.
Logo's Midjourney? ha! don't be ridiculous
I posted a dumb question here earlier ( which I've since deleted as the video answered it - also I realise "there are no dumb questions" when learning ) and yeah, I had no idea there were so many x-wave y-punk z-core genres out there ( like, WOW - awesome!! ) and I'm only 53 minutes in atm and I notice there's a thing called "aesthetic wiki" ( again, WOW, hello?! I needed this ), so in short, THANK YOU for making this video, a third of the way in and it's already been a treasure trove ( so full of info I'm taking it in doses )
Is Stable Diffusion able to do the same things like MidJourney ?
They're very similar in a lot of ways. MidJourney 5.2 is a bit more sophisticated and elegant, Stable Diffusion gives you a bit more free range, and the prompts work in different ways. I suggest exploring both!
Good video, but next time use sections.
? There are quite thorough chapter markers in place
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Most people don’t know but, I’m the reason Midjourney free trial ended 🥲🤣😂😅
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